If McLaren had to sprint until the final hurdle of the 2024 season to fend off Ferrari’s prancing horse for the team’s first constructors’ crown since 1998, then it is heading towards a second title at a canter this year.Its 11 wins in 14 is almost double the victories claimedContinue Reading
George Russell says the long wait for a Mercedes title challenge has made him “more hungry than ever” for success in Formula 1.Russell has been part of the Mercedes set up since joining its junior programme in 2017, and after waltzing through title-winning campaigns in GP3 and F2 Russell lookedContinue Reading
But one man who has not shut down is our F1 writer Ronald Vording, who joins James Allen from the Netherlands to take stock of the season and look ahead to what we can expect when the racing starts again later this month.Max Verstappen confirmed before the break that he’sContinue Reading
There’s a scene in the latest season of Drive to Survive where Ayao Komatsu is challenged by one of his staff members on whether signing Esteban Ocon was the right decision for the team.“Are you fully 100% sure that Ocon is a good fit for us?” the Japanese manager isContinue Reading
Next year, both chassis and power unit regulations will undergo sweeping changes. Several technical directors in the F1 paddock have called it the biggest overhaul of the past 50 years.In addition to concerns from drivers about the racing in general, some fear it could pave the way for long-term dominanceContinue Reading
It’s been one of the recurring patterns in the first half of the season: where the Red Bull RB21 car has a very narrow operating window and is particularly tricky to handle, but the Racing Bulls VCARB 02 car has proven to be far more forgiving.That’s been a factor in the stormingContinue Reading
“Life in Switzerland was one of the biggest surprises of the job,” Sauber team principal Jonathan Wheatley tells Autosport. “I’m absolutely loving it. We live in Zug [a lakeside town in the foothills of the Alps], which is not far from Zurich, we’ve got this amazing city just down the road, and myContinue Reading
“Britain’s least successful grand prix driver.”With that headline, running in 40-odd-point text on the right-hand side of a double-page spread, readers of the August 1992 edition of Car magazine were introduced to Perry McCarthy. On the opposite side, in a singularly ‘route one’ piece of art direction, McCarthy was photographedContinue Reading
As Formula 1’s calendar has ballooned over the past couple of decades, it’s a bit easier to get away with an off-weekend – nonetheless, championship credentials are still awarded to those who make the least mistakes.With just nine points between Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris at this stage in theContinue Reading
Reigning four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen might just be the most highly-rated current driver – and Emerson Fittipaldi clearly won’t disagree.Double world champion Fittipaldi was asked by Autosport in an exclusive interview about the Red Bull driver’s current performance, and the Brazilian readily singled him out as theContinue Reading